http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/is-chronic-pain-disease/ Chronic Pain Solutions Thu, 17 May 2012 19:58:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/is-chronic-pain-disease/#comment-7 J. Kimber Rotchford MD Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:42:43 +0000 http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/is-chronic-pain-disease/#comment-7 I think the question is wrong..pain is a symptom and a subjective reality. I think rather we should say that Chronic Pain implies a disease process in the CNS. It clearly isn't one process and a multitude of "processes" are often involved in the same patient. That patients who continue to have chronic pain have a progressive disease of the CNS is without a doubt but the "disease" rests in the CNS not the symptoms. The overlap here again with addictive disorders is big. I think the question is wrong..pain is a symptom and a subjective reality. I think rather we should say that Chronic Pain implies a disease process in the CNS. It clearly isn’t one process and a multitude of “processes” are often involved in the same patient. That patients who continue to have chronic pain have a progressive disease of the CNS is without a doubt but the “disease” rests in the CNS not the symptoms. The overlap here again with addictive disorders is big.

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